CERVINO 
Creating an EneRgy data exchange and VIsualizatioN tOol for the alps
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For the European Union to become a carbon-neutral economy by 2050, decision-makers need reliable energy data to define, implement, and monitor the effectiveness of energy policies. CERVINO facilitates the exchange and visualisation of energy data within the Alpine territory. It sets up a stable and reliable system that enables a better collection, management, update and use of Alpine energy data. The project improves the Energy Survey conducted in 2017 and 2019 in the framework of the EU Strategy for the Alpine Region (EUSALP) developing a simple, user-friendly energy data management tool. Data entry and processing of the management tool will be facilitated and a roadmap will ensure regular surveys on energy data. The Energy Survey will support decision-making processes on energy matters across the Alps.

Factsheet

  • 2021 – 2027
  • Carbon neutral and resource sensitive Alpine region
  • SO 2.1 - Promoting energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions
    • AG9 Energy efficiency and renewable energy
  • 09/2022
  • 02/2024
  • 669.200 EUR
  • 501.900 EUR

Description

The CERVINO project, named after the mighty mountain in the Alps, aims to develop an energy data platform for the Alpine region. Why is such a platform important and how is it being developed?

The Alpine Space benefits from important energy flows between regions. These energy flows can lead to cross-border energy projects, which in turn can significantly contribute to achieving the EU goal of being CO2 neutral by 2050. A necessary basis for joint energy projects is reliable cross-regional energy data. They make it possible to define framework conditions and projects, to implement them and to check their success.

There are various challenges in obtaining a reliable, transnational data basis: Energy data, which have a different spatial and temporal scale, must be collected and analysed. The data must also be reliable and updated regularly and cost-effectively. The results need to be presented in a way that is easily understood by all stakeholders in the region. And stakeholders need to know about the data platform and its usefulness.

The CERVINO project addresses all these challenges. Based on previous energy surveys, it is developing a new platform: the CERVINO Alpine Energy Data Platform. It enables the exchange of energy data between regions and supports decision-making processes.

To do so, CERVINO will leverage an already existing activity developed within EUSALP's AG9, the "EUSALP Energy Survey", implemented in 2017 and updated in 2019. Taking that past experience as a starting point, it will reshape, upgrade and improve the existing Energy Survey structure based on the lessons learned. The project develops a simple, user-friendly energy data tool allowing for automated management of the Survey. It conducts the reshaped Survey using the new tool and validate the developed solutions. A roadmap for the durability of the new energy data management tool shall ensure the regular update of the Survey and ultimately leading to the establishment of an Alpine Energy Observatory. And CERVINO makes the Energy Data Platform known among the stakeholders to maximise its use and usefulness.

To ensure the quality and usefulness of the new platform, CERVINO is involving stakeholders from the Alpine region in its development. Among them will be regional authorities as well as members from EUSALP’s Action Group 9, an Action Group focused on Energy in the EU Strategy for the Alpine Region (EUSALP). In March 2024, a platform will be available for the first time that will allow the exchange of energy data for the Alpine Space in an automated, cost-efficient and regularly updated way: the CERVINO Alpine Energy Data Platform.

Organisations implementing the CERVINO project are energy agencies and a research institute that are experts in energy planning and energy data in the Alpine region:

From Italy

  • Region Liguria: IRE spa, the Regional Agency for Infrastructure development, building Renovation and Energy of Liguria as lead partner.
  • Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano/Bozen: Eurac research

From France
Region Rhône-Alpes: Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Energy Environment Agency

From Slovenia
Region Vzhodna Slovenija: Energy Agency of Savinjska, Šaleška and Koroška Region

From Germany
Region Oberbayern: Civic Foundation Energiewende Oberland (EWO)

Learn more about the CERVINO project team here.

Partners

Regional Agency for Infrastructure development, building Renovation and Energy of Liguria – IRE spa (Lead partner)
  • Lead partner
  • Italy
  • Liguria (ITC3)
  • Genova
Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Energy Environment Agency
  • France
  • Rhône-Alpes (FRK2)
  • Villeurbanne
Civic Foundation Energiewende Oberland (EWO)
  • Germany
  • Oberbayern (DE21)
  • Penzberg
Eurac research
  • Italy
  • Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano/Bozen (ITH1)
  • Bolzano
Energy Agency of Savinjska, Šaleška and Koroška Region
  • Slovenia
  • Vzhodna Slovenija (SI03)
  • Velenje
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Outcomes


  • EUSALP Energy Data Management Tool

    This simple, open-source, easy-to-navigate data tool will enable the optimal collection, processing, visualization and use of energy data at macro-regional level. The goal is to deliver it a few months before project closure to allow sufficient time for wide dissemination, e.g. exploiting the possibility to present it at the Eusalp Annual Forum 2023.

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    28 Feb - 03 Mar 2023
    World Sustainable Energy Days
    Project: CERVINO
    2023: Energy Transition = Energy security!
    World Energy Days Wels
    22 - 24 Nov 2022
    EUSALP Annual Conference 2022
    Project: CERVINO
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      Project news

      (GREEN) Energy management is a trans-sectoral EUSALP concern

      12.05.2023
      Ronald Regan said information is the oxygen of the modern age. Equivalently spoken is data the oxyge

      Few visions are realistic without a previous data collection and observatory

      19.04.2023
      The European Union claims to become a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. That means a serious political, social and economic challenge at various levels.

      CERVINO at the World Sustainable Energy Days (WSED)

      15.03.2023
      Claudio Zandonella Callegher from Eurac Research presented a poster on the CERVINO project on the World Sustainable Energy Days (WSED), which took place from the 28th of February to the 3rd of March 2023 at the Stadthalle of Wels, in Austria .

      A first look at the energy data survey and the CERVINO alpine energy data platform – topics at the CERVINO meeting on 30 January 2023

      20.02.2023
      CERVINO is preparing an energy data platform for the Alpine region. With the help of an automated, regular survey, energy data from the region will be collected, which will facilitate the planning, implementation and monitoring of energy projects in the Alps.

      CERVINO – presenting the project partners

      24.01.2023
      To support the Alpine Region in becoming greener and smarter and to be at the forefront of the transition towards carbon neutrality and climate resilience within the EU, the CERVINO project develops an Alpine energy data platform. With the help of reliable macro regional energy data from the CERVINO

      The Alpine Energy Data Platform - CERVINO

      23.12.2022
      What is the share of renewable energy in the regions of the Alpine Space? Where are the needs today and in the future to achieve the goal of a climate-neutral Alpine Space based on renewable system? CERVINO facilitates the exchange and visualization of energy data within the Alpine territory.

      CERVINO project meeting in Bolzano

      12.12.2022
      CERVINO project meeting in Bolzano - new survey, new tool and how to spread project news

      Common energy data for the Alpine region!

      04.11.2022
      The CERVINO project, which deals with the creation of an energy data exchange and visualization tool for the Alps, started on September 1st, 2022.